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Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Quintus_Smyrnaeus's_Posthomerica
GPTKB entity
Statements (40)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:alternativeName
gptkb:Posthomerica
gptkb:The_Posthomerica
gptkbp:author
gptkb:Quintus_Smyrnaeus
gptkbp:category
gptkb:Greek
Classical epic poetry
gptkbp:chronology
follows Homer's Iliad
precedes Homer's Odyssey
gptkbp:continuedBy
gptkb:Homeric_tradition
gptkbp:dateWritten
3rd or 4th century CE
gptkbp:firstPublished
1504, Venice
gptkbp:genre
gptkb:poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica
gptkbp:influencedBy
gptkb:Homer
gptkbp:language
gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:length
about 12,000 lines
gptkbp:narrativeScope
events between the death of Hector and the fall of Troy
gptkbp:notableCharacter
gptkb:Ajax
gptkb:Paris
gptkb:Achilles
gptkb:Aeneas
gptkb:Helen
gptkb:Odysseus
gptkb:Priam
gptkb:Memnon
gptkb:Neoptolemus
gptkb:Penthesilea
gptkbp:numberOfBooks
14
gptkbp:preservedIn
manuscripts from the Byzantine period
gptkbp:setting
gptkb:Troy
gptkbp:significance
major source for post-Iliad Trojan War myths
gptkbp:structure
dactylic hexameter
gptkbp:subject
gptkb:Trojan_War
gptkbp:theme
gptkb:war
fate
heroism
divine intervention
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Death_of_Penthesilea
gptkb:Trojan
gptkbp:bfsLayer
5